G5 ANTI-JIHADIST ALLIANCE IN SAHEL REGION TO BE DISSOLVED 

Five West Africa countries; Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger that agreed to G5 Sahel Alliance that they created in 2014 in Nouakchott, Mauritania are now abandoning the group.

They are abandoning the group because the anti-jihadist force; the G5 Sahel Joint Force, that they established, which was backed by France, to strengthen their capacity to fight Islamists in the Sahel region is not yielding expected results because security situation continued to deteriorate.

The level of violence escalated, spreading wide with thousands of civilians and fighters killed while millions of people have been displaced from their homes.

All these have contributed to political instability in the Sahel region with series of military coups witnessed in Mali in 2020, Burkina in 2022, and earlier 2023 in Niger.

The military junta-led Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger counties, as a result, announced their plans to pulled out from the coalition.

Now, the remaining member countries, Chad and Mauritania are paving the way to dissolving the anti-jihadist grouping since the other three founding member countries had left.

They want to invoke the G5 founding convention, particularly its Article 20 that declared that the alliance can be dissolved at the request of at least three member states.

In a joint statement, Chad and Mauritania pointed to the fact that they have taken note and do respect the sovereign decision of Burkina Faso and Niger to leave the alliance, following in the footsteps of Mali, which quit in 2022.

The two countries said they are ready to implement all necessary measures in accordance with the G5 founding convention to active Article 20 of the alliance.